President Donald Trump got no funding for his wall along the Mexican border. The 35-day standoff between the White House and Democrats, who now hold a majority of seats in the House, yielded the President nothing. […]
Post-production employees of Vice Media, Inc. have overwhelmingly ratified a Motion Picture Editors Guild union contract. The agreement addresses employee’s concerns over pay and job security, and also breaks new ground on the topic of gender and use of pronouns. […]
Over the summer and fall of 1988, the Motion Picture Editors Guild in Hollywood, then IATSE Local 776, made two very auspicious hires to its staff. On July 25, Adriana Iglesias (now Iglesias-Dietl) became assistant bookkeeper and, on October 17, Lisa Berniker (now Dosch) was named administrative assistant. […]
This issue of CineMontage, for all its many virtues, isn’t the most important piece of mail you’ll receive this month. Local 700 members, as well as members of our 12 sister IATSE locals who share the Basic Agreement, will soon receive ballots in their mailboxes. […]
In a strong display of solidarity, a record number of Motion Picture Editors Guild members attended Special Membership Meetings in Los Angeles, New York and Marin County to discuss contract negotiations. […]
UPS just avoided a close call. The massive package delivery company reached a handshake contract deal with Teamsters negotiators on Thursday. Teamsters members had earlier authorized a strike that could have started in August if a […]
In her first book, “Hog Wild: The Battle for Workers’ Rights at The World’s Largest Slaughterhouse” (University of Iowa Press), Lynn Waltz recounts how these conditions boiled over into the nation’s epic unionization battles, a relentless, bitter and […]
On Tuesday, the newsroom at the Florida Times-Union announced it had started the process that will lead to a vote on whether to unionize. The Times-Union intends to join The NewsGuild-CWA, a union that represents 25,000 journalists […]
Thousands of unionized workers at Las Vegas casino-resorts operated by MGM Resorts International, including Bellagio, Aria and Mandalay Bay, approved a new five-year contract Tuesday. Despite the ratified contracts, there are still 14,000 workers […]
Tesla chief Elon Musk said last week that the company’s layoffs of 9 percent of its workforce wouldn’t affect production as the all-electric automaker races to build thousands of new Model 3 sedans a week. But documents show that more than 400 […]
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